Watchmen Archives

It was back during San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC) 2023 that we learned that animated film adaptations for Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths (inspired by the twelve-issue maxi-series by Marv Wolfman & George Pérez) and Watchmen (based on writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colorist John Higgins's classic work) were on the way[...]

And the interviewer, Russell Nelson, asked him about comics, Watchmen, superheroes, graphic novels and the like. And Alan Moore says what he usually says when asked such things. Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins screencap "If you remember, in the 80s, there were tons and tons of headlines just saying Bam! Sock! Pow! Comics have grown up! And, like,[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? HBO's Watchmen & Nine Inch Nails, DC Studios' Superman, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia/Jerry Seinfeld, Vice TV's Dark Side of the Ring, CBS's Young Sheldon, Conan O'Brien & Hot Ones, Disney+'s X-Men '97, Netflix's Scooby-Doo, Paramount+'s Star Trek: Discovery, AMC's The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, BBC & Disney+'s Doctor[...]

We haven't exactly made secret the fact that we consider HBO & Damon Lindelof's Emmy Award-winning Regina King-starring pseudo-sequel spinoff/remix of writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons & colorist John Higgins' comic book classic Watchmen to be one of the best series to grace our screens in quite some time A large part of the show's[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? CBS's Young Sheldon, HBO's Watchmen/Louis Gossett Jr., Fraggle Rock: Elmo/Larry David, AMC's The Walking Dead: Dead City, WWE 2K24, TNT's AEW Rampage, MTV's RuPaul's Drag Race, Prime Video's Invincible, FX's American Horror Story: Delicate, FX's What We Do in the Shadows, Dropout's Smartypants, AMC's Orphan Black: Echoes, Star Trek/Alex Kurtzman, BBC's Doctor Who, Netflix's Iron Fist, ABC's The Rookie,[...]

While any number of films, television appearances, and live-theater work could easily be celebrated, one of Gossett Jr.'s roles will always be at the top of the list for us – Will Reeves, aka Hooded Justice, the first masked hero and inspiration for the Minutemen in HBO & Damon Lindelof's Regina King-starring pseudo-sequel spinoff/remix of[...]

Dawn of the Dead… 300… Watchmen… Sucker Punch… that's a pretty impressive track record As a filmmaker, Snyder brought a unique vision & brand of storytelling to the big screen – a trailblazer with moments of cinematic greatness But then 2013 happened – and things started to get weird We had Man of Steel… Batman[...]

From the new gorgeous looking Birds Of Prey #5 from Kelly Thompson and Arist Deyn, Black Canary addresses their big foe Megaera, and pulls from the most quotable comic book. Well, yes, that would be Rorschach – sorry, Walter Kovacs – as seen in the comic book Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. Which Black Canary[...]

In a special essay for Variety as part of its "100 Greatest Television Shows of All Time," Damon Lindelof (Lost, HBO's Watchmen) explains why the series "was transmitting at exactly my frequency" and why he's "spent the better part of my career fiddling with my tuner in an effort to channel that exquisite art into[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? BBC's Doctor Who, HBO's Watchmen, Netflix's Daredevil, Barry Manilow, Netflix's Blue Eye Samurai, James Gunn/Lex Luthor, Disney+/Hulu & Netflix, Paramount+'s Frasier, Dropout's Game Changer, Paramount+ with Showtime, Paramount+'s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Netflix's Stranger Things 5, Adult Swim's Rick and Morty, Golden Globe Awards, and more! Images/Screencaps: Max, Netflix, Adult Swim,[...]

But it turns out that HBO & Damon Lindelof's Regina King-starring pseudo-sequel spinoff/remix of writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons & colorist John Higgins' comic book classic Watchmen hasn't been removed from the streaming service – as you can see from the screencap taken just before this went live Unofficially, we're hearing it's one of[...]

This means that, yes, DC Comics finds yet another way to publish Watchmen – in a digest size. DC Compact Comics has a  5.5" x 8.5" standard book trim for trade paperback novels, the new format pulls bestselling, new-reader-friendly titles from DC's evergreen library Here's the first list for June 2024. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top:[...]

Sylvester got the role when BBC decided that Campbell (whose audition channelled Doctor Manhattan from the recently-published Alan Moore comic Watchmen) was too scary for children Yes, this really happened. But what if Campbell had got the job? In the universe next door, he did Join us for the adventures of… The Lost Doctor. In this beautifully[...]

"From his work on Doctor Who, Dan Dare and Green Lantern comic strips, to seminal graphic novels Watchmen, Martha Washington and the Eisner-award winning semi biographical The Originals, Dave's comic books are essential reading We're utterly delighted that Dave has put his trust in B7 Media to record and publish the audiobook edition of his[...]

So from this point forward, monies that would be heading his way from projects like HBO & Damon Lindelof's pseudo-sequel spinoff/remix of Moore, artist Dave Gibbons & colorist John Higgins' comic book classic Watchmen, the Natalie Portman & Hugo Weaving-starring V for Vendetta, and others would now head to Black Lives Matter (BLM)? Excellent! Great news! But[...]

So I asked for DC Comics to send all of the money from any future TV series or films to Black Lives Matter." That includes monies from projects like HBO & Damon Lindelof's pseudo-sequel spinoff/remix of Moore, artist Dave Gibbons & colorist John Higgins' comic book classic Watchmen, the Natalie Portman & Hugo Weaving-starring V for[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? Stephen Amell & SAG-AFTRA, FX's Reservation Dogs, WWE/NXT, Vice TV's Dark Side of the Ring, FX's Justified: City Primeval, HBO's Euphoria, Amazon's Blade Runner 2099, Watchmen/"Crisis" animated films, Disney+'s Ahsoka, Netflix's Disenchantment, Netflix's One Piece, Paramount+'s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Pee-wee Herman, Leonard Nimoy, and more! Image/Screencaps:[...]

One of the biggest was the confirmation that 2024 will bring animated film adaptations for Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths (based on the twelve-issue maxi-series by Marv Wolfman & George Pérez) and Watchmen (based on Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons' classic work) While both titles were officially confirmed at the time, not much is[...]

As was reported on social media overnight and confirmed via tweets by DC this morning, the end of the screening confirmed that 2024 will bring animated film adaptations for Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths (based on the twelve-issue maxi-series by Marv Wolfman & George Pérez) and Watchmen (based on Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons'[...]

The good thing working with Alan Moore on Watchmen is he, and it, became so well known, that anything with Watchmen on it got a certain amount of success I was offered lots of things to do because I worked on Watchmen, it didn't matter if I was writing or drawing." Gibbons recalled, but he[...]

Lindelof's Watchmen was also about the search for a new God to believe in Much of Hernandez's work on The Big Bang Theory is about a group of nerds and how their deep beliefs clash with the world outside their circle Mrs Davis is the type of show one of the characters on The Big[...]

In fact, the fight is so important that it's brought together the one "crossover" that we never thought that we would see: The Arrowverse and Watchmen And we have The CW's Gotham Knights EP & Co-Creator (and who can forget Batwoman?) Natalie Abrams, "Arrowverse" mastermind Marc Guggenheim, and HBO's Watchmen EP & Creator Damon Lindelof[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? Adult Swim SMALLS, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba, Hulu's Only Murders in the Building, NBC's Night Court, Disney+'s Agatha: Coven of Chaos, Mike Flanagan/Netflix, HBO's Watchmen, BBC's Doctor Who, Paramount+'s Star Trek: Picard, FXX's It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, FX's What We Do in the Shadows, NBC's[...]

Davis, you had to know that he would still be getting questions about a possible future for his and HBO's pseudo-sequel spinoff/remix of writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons & colorist John Higgins' Watchmen Blowing past the gatekeepers and comics snobs to produce a work of art worthy of the name "Watchmen," the limited series[...]

Pat Mills and John Wagner are the creators of Judge Dredd for 2000AD, and Dave Gibbons not only drew Rogue Trooper for 2000AD but went on to co-create and draw Watchmen Beep the Meep is their Doctor Who connection The Americans have Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, the British have Two Degrees to Doctor Who[...]

On the day of the publication of his autobiography, Confabulations, written as an A-to-Z of a life worth anecdotes (though he feels he may have to give us a second volume at some point as he keeps realising stories, events and people he may have missed out), it is notable that there is no "Watchmen"[...]

Watchmen was a comic book by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons and John Higgins You might have heard of it; it was quite popular Was turned into a movie, a TV series, toys, unauthorised prequels, sequels and eventually merged with the history of the DC Universe So what's next? Well, I may have some other gossip[...]

Speaking with Variety as part of an overall profile, Bloys touched upon when fans of House of the Dragon can expect a second season, as well as what's going on with more Succession, Watchmen, Six Feet Under, True Blood, and Bong Joon-ho's series take on his Academy Award-winning film, Parasite Here are some of the[...]

Who wore it better: Kanye or Tim Blake Nelson's Looking Glass from HBO & Damon Lindelof's Watchmen? Image: YouTube Screencap/HBO Verdict: Looking Glass… and it's not even close Why? Because the reflective surface of Looking Glass' mask forces the person to view themselves while he speaks That's way more intimidating that pulling some leggings over your head[...]

Our line-up for this morning includes DC Studios co-head James Gunn responding to rampant DCU rumors, Michael Connelly offering both literary & live-action "Bosch" updates, Mike Flanagan & Trevor Macy getting their chance to climb Stephen King's "The Dark Tower," The CW's DC's Stargirl series & character creator Geoff Johns discussing the series finale, Amazon[...]